“In War – Resolution. / In Defeat – Defiance. / In Victory – Magnanimity. / In Peace – Goodwill”

FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS. Signed and dated by Churchill in the first volume. An attractive set of this twentieth-century classic. Here one of the century’s greatest men writes about one of the century’s greatest events, akin to Caesar writing about the Gallic Wars. None of the other top war leaders (Roosevelt, Truman, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, or Tojo) wrote a firsthand account of the war.

“Churchill drew upon thousands of his own memoranda and documents in British archives, but in the end, this epic is structured on his personal experience and expresses his courage and astonishing self-confidence” (New York Public Library, Books of the Century 179).

$18,500